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Macrae-Gibson

The Secret Life of Buildings

An American Mythology for Modern Architecture

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-262-63118-1
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
Erscheinungstermin: 01.01.1988
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American architecture is undergoing fundamental changes. Gavin Macrae-Gibson interprets this new architecture in critiques of Frank Gehry's house in Santa Monica (the representation of perception); Peter Eisenman's House El Even Odd (millenial anxiety); Cesar Pelli's Four Leaf Towers (a sensibility of silence); Michael Graves's Portland Building (a concern for the sublime); Robert Stern's Bozzi House (a discussion of scenography); Alan Greenberg's Manchester Superior Court Building (the continuity of the classical); and Robert Venturi's Gordon Wu Hall Princeton (an irony of the difficult whole). The author rejects modernist explanations of these recent architectural achievements in favor of a new poetic logic that he combines with a formal analysis to reveal the layers of meaning present in each building, including the deepest layer its secret life.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780262631181
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-262-63118-1
  • Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.01.1988
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Neuauflage 1988
  • Serie: Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 694 g
  • Seiten: 234
  • Format (B x H x T): 203 x 279 x 20 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Gavin Macrae-Gibson is a practicing architect. He has been Visiting Lecturer in Architectural Theory at Yale University since 1982, and has taught and lectured widely throughout the United States and Canada.